[Dx-qsl] 2007 DX Yearbook

Sun Sep 28 15:55:10 EDT 2008

I also received my year book and I have to agree with Wes. I would 
think the 39 pages of calls and their DXCC status is rather useless 
information to most of us. First of all, how do you find someone's call 
in all that mess? It is far easier to go to the ARRL web site, go DXCC 
Listings, download or just open the PDF file, put the desired callsign 
in the SEARCH box and bingo, there is the call you are looking for.
I am for more articles on DXpeditions and rare DX locations than pages 
upon pages of callsign listings.
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Alan Zack
Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wes Quinn" <wes_quinn at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:31 AM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] 2007 DX Yearbook
>> I finally received my 2007 DX Yearbook yesterday via the mail! 
> Woohoo! It has some great articles in it, especially from Vlad 
> (UA4WHX).
>> It only has 8 pages of articles, because Bill (NC1L) mentioned that 
> (per comments he has received) to add the DXCC Annual List again. That 
> list takes up 39 pages! I think that is such a waste, since any 
> member can get it off the web for free and it doesn't cost the ARRL 
> much to do that. I would rather see more articles in the yearbook 
> than a listing of DXCC callsigns which is already outdated, since the 
> info changes so often these days.
>> Previous years had 20+ pages of articles, so apparently publishing the 
> calls in it takes away from that! Oh well, maybe next year they'll 
> have more articles instead of the list. I really enjoy reading the 
> dxpedition year in review.
>> Maybe ARRL can put up a voting option on their web site to see which 
> way people prefer? More articles with no list OR less articles with 
> the list?
>> And now back to dxing. ;-)
>> 73 es gud dx de k4Wes